Tag: #empathy

• NaPoWriMo Day 5 : It is Not necessary

  

  “This prompt challenges you to find a poem, and then write a new poem that has the shape of the original, and in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem. If I used Roethke’s poem  as my model, for example, the first line would start with…

  Smitha V

  April 5, 2021

  Poetry

  #compassion, #day5, #empathy, #GloPoWriMo2021, #helping, #Itisnotnecessary, #kindness, #NaPoWriMo2021, #poem, #understandingothers

• HELPLESS

  

  I visit the senior home- there is a cage in the basement with parakeets that greet and potted plants in the hallway. The walls are pink and cheery and the floors are clean and shiny The air smells like the pool and the hospital – Chlorine and Dettol I take the lift upstairs to where…

  Smitha V

  November 21, 2020

  Poetry

  #ageing, #empathy, #father, #guilty, #life, #oldage, #oldparents, #poemsonlife, #truth, #youth